Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...respect to the instructor, is not an elementary course, and no beginner ought to think of taking it. The question is, Why is there no course in Zoology to correspond to the Botany and Chemistry courses? I hope another year the authorities will give us such a course, and allow Zoology to take its proper place here with other "liberal" studies, and not be made a specialty for doctors...
BOSTON, November 16, 1878.MY DEAR SIR, - Looking to you as best representing the boating interests of your University, I take the liberty of a letter asking your attention and answer as early as you will allow. You will recollect that the coming season brings the tenth anniversary of Oxford's victory over Harvard in a race from Putney to Mortlake. To-day at Cambridge there is a strong desire that a race may be rowed the next summer to again try the good rowing of the two universities. In '69 the trial was hardly a satisfactory one, being...
...facts disclosed by a correspondent in regard to the abstraction of reserved books from the Library need little comment from us. Laying aside the question of the want of honor shown by those who allow themselves such liberties, we merely wish to remind students how injurious to their interests it is to allow the rules of the Library to go for nothing. The system of reserving books, which has proved so successful and so useful to us all, would have to be abandoned if the practice our correspondent has exposed became common; it is therefore incumbent on all students...
...ALLOW me to call attention to a new grievance in that fertile field of fault finding, the marking system. If an instructor is allowed to send warnings to students for cutting recitations in his elective, the privilege of voluntary recitations, for which the Junior class has to pay so dear, is practically abolished. Recitations are not really voluntary so long as there is a penalty of any sort for absence, and when an instructor, after finding a man absent for several recitations, sends him a notice that he is not likely to get through the course unless his attendance improves...
...Exonian comes to us regularly once a week, and is always readable. This may be owing to its size, which does not allow of long articles on deep subjects, - but whatever the cause, the result is most agreeable...